We just had our kick-off audio chat for the book sprint. It is wonderful to have so many great people working together on the Etoys manual! For now, we start writing at FLOSS Manuals Etoys . if you have any questions or want to discuss, try the IRC and start your question with @help ... In case everyone has finally gone to sleep, check out the book sprint page on our wiki or send an email to rita@squeakland.org We will have our next audio chat tomorrow, December 8 at 3 pm EST, 12 PST....

Squeakland will have it's first Book Sprint to create a Reference Manual for Etoys! Please join us online during the week of December, 7 to December12, 2009. The book will serve as - the manual you can look up every part of Etoys, - the documentation of what we commit to support in Etoys and - the starting point for other, more elaborate materials. For writing we intend to use FLOSS Manuals. The manual will be available online (html and pdf format), and as a real book per print-on-demand. It will be licensed under MIT, so that we can...

We're very pleased to announce that Squeak Etoys has been named Editor's Choice by Children's Technology Review in their June 2009 issue!...